{"id":91589,"date":"2020-10-17T19:42:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T16:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/celeb-bodyguard-goes-from-protecting-bella-hadid-to-the-big-screen\/"},"modified":"2020-10-17T19:42:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T16:42:31","slug":"celeb-bodyguard-goes-from-protecting-bella-hadid-to-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/celeb-bodyguard-goes-from-protecting-bella-hadid-to-the-big-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"#Celeb bodyguard goes from protecting Bella Hadid to the big screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a406301e619d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a406301e619d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/celeb-bodyguard-goes-from-protecting-bella-hadid-to-the-big-screen\/#His_star_clients\" >His star clients:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Celeb bodyguard goes from protecting Bella Hadid to the big screen<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        Despite what Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston showed us in \u201cThe Bodyguard,\u201d running security for a gorgeous female celebrity doesn\u2019t usually lead to love. But the lines can certainly get blurred, at least from the outside looking in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem is, you are kind of the ultimate guy: You get the door, you carry the bags, you are always nice and do as you are told,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/simonnewtonlondon.com\/\">Simon Newton<\/a> told The Post. \u201cBut that\u2019s not \u00adreally you, is it? No man is like that. People get mixed up with being a boyfriend and a bodyguard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old Londoner has been a bodyguard for the likes of Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner, Rita Ora and Naomi Campbell, not to mention Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>With brooding good looks, cartoonish muscles and a natty personal style, Newton looks like he was dreamed up by Guy Ritchie\u2019s casting director. In fact, he had a small part in Ritchie\u2019s \u201cSherlock Holmes 2: A <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a> of Shadows,\u201d as well as \u201cGreen Zone\u201d starring Matt Damon. He was also a body double for Dave Bautista in 2018\u2019s \u201cFinal Score.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything I do, I am always typecast as the bodyguard, soldier, policeman, prison inmate, gangster, tough guy. I never get the gay-librarian parts,\u201d Newton said with a laugh. \u201cBut I\u2019d have a go at that, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16469439\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img class=\"size-nypost-large-desktop-uncropped wp-image-16469439 lazyload\" alt=\"Simon Newton\" width=\"294\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/simon-newton-bodyguard-8.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/simon-newton-bodyguard-8.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/simon-newton-bodyguard-8.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/simon-newton-bodyguard-8.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=294 294w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/simon-newton-bodyguard-8.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=588 588w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 294px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Simon Newton<\/span><span class=\"credit\">David Woolfall<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now he is ready to command as much of the spotlight as his former clients do. This year was set to be a busy one. He had two movie roles lined up: an action flick to be filmed in Los Angeles and a short film set in London, but both were postponed \u00adbecause of the pandemic. He is currently shopping a reality-TV competition show in which contestants will try to see if they have the chops to make it as a bodyguard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve done everything you could do in the [security] industry,\u201d Newton told The Post. That includes establishing his own security firm, Askari Secure Ltd. \u201cAnd now with the acting, It\u2019s a new path for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not bad for a self-proclaimed \u201cfat kid\u201d whose main goal growing up was to join the military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything in my life has just come along. I\u2019ve been offered opportunities and thought, \u2018Yeah, I am going to have a go at that.\u2019 I never really planned anything,\u201d he admitted. \u201cI think everybody gets maybe three life-changing opportunities in a lifetime. Whether they chose to take or even identify them is up to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although his hasn\u2019t always been a glamorous existence. He had to exercise off some serious weight to be \u00adaccepted into the British Army, which stationed him in Iraq in the early 2000s. When he was offered a job with a private security company based in London, he left the military and worked in Iraq and Afghanistan and even protected oil tankers in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey used to get taken captive by pirates, so we would defend the ship when it was <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing to port cities,\u201d Newton recalled. \u201cThat was surreal.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16469441\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img class=\"wp-image-16469441 size-nypost-large-desktop-uncropped lazyload\" alt=\"Simon in London\" width=\"294\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/simon-newton-bodyguard-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/simon-newton-bodyguard-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/simon-newton-bodyguard-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/simon-newton-bodyguard-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=294 294w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/simon-newton-bodyguard-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=588 588w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 294px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Simon in London<\/span><span class=\"credit\">David Woolfall<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2006 life became even more \u00adbizarre when he was assigned to protect Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou won\u2019t ever look after anyone more difficult than Michael Jackson. I don\u2019t mean him personally \u2014 but his fan base was just horrendous. It was the hardest,\u201d said Newton, adding that rabid devotees of the singer would book rooms in whatever hotel Jackson was staying, and hire black cabs to be on standby 24 hours a day to chase Jacko around town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverywhere we went, we had to be meticulous and get him straight inside a building because the crowd buildup was insane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newton started garnering his own fan base while guarding some of the world\u2019s most beautiful women. \u201cWhen I was looking after Bella, Vogue did an article on me. And people started saying, \u2018Oh I want to be a bodyguard and be in Vogue.\u2019 They don\u2019t know what I\u2019ve done in the 13 years to be able to do this,\u201d said Newton. He also landed in the pages of GQ and \u201cI kind of slipped into fitness modeling somehow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following celebrities to film premieres and other glamorous parties, he began to pride himself on his personal style. \u201cI realized that if you start to look physically fit, you can ruin it if you don\u2019t have the right clothes.\u201d He relies on Sloane Tailors in Knightsbridge, London to fit his duds to his muscular physique. And he isn\u2019t afraid of a little flamboyance: Newton\u2019s most recent purchase was a green-velvet dinner jacket.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"His_star_clients\"><\/span>His star clients:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><!--If the slideshow is embedded in another post type add the inline wrapper --><\/p>\n<p>Since giving up being a bodyguard about two years ago to run his own firm, he has also had more time for a personal life. For the last year and a half, he\u2019s been in a long-distance relationship with model-turned-attorney Jennifer Mancuso. The pair met in London on a night out and travel back and forth between England and Canada, where she resides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been one of the first times that I\u2019ve been able to have a proper relationship because, before, I would get a phone call and be out of the door in two hours and not back for three months,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople sort of see me and sometimes think I have the golden life, but they haven\u2019t seen the sacrifices I\u2019ve made over the years to be able to go away and do my job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And now he\u2019s ready to sacrifice in a different way: \u201cI am not going to say that I am going to get a leading part as James Bond but I am looking to regularly get sensible roles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hey, to borrow a title from 007: Never say never.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/17\/celeb-bodyguard-goes-from-protecting-bella-hadid-to-the-big-screen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Celeb bodyguard goes from protecting Bella Hadid to the big screen&#8221; Despite what Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston showed us in \u201cThe Bodyguard,\u201d running security for a gorgeous female celebrity doesn\u2019t usually lead to love. But the lines can certainly get blurred, at least from the outside looking in. \u201cThe problem is, you are kind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/Mr-Muscle-Simon-Newton.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[76135,72804,14998,41127],"class_list":["post-91589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-17-20","tag-bella-hadid","tag-bodyguard","tag-michael-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}